This holiday shopping season, coupons and recommendations reign supreme in convincing women to purchase products or visit a retailer. In a survey of the SheSpeaks member community, women reveal that they will make stricter budgets but, still spend more then they expect. Online research, online and mailed coupons and recommendations from friends will drive purchase decisions. [more]

In 2000 we were seeing a strong 75 percent of women finding jobs in the workforce. Since then, we have dropped down two percentage points and now stand at 73 percent. That 2 percent represents 4 million women who are currently unemployed. [more]

A recent report written by Eileen Zimmerman in the Job Market section of the New York Times offers answers for people who may find this task embarrassing or difficult to muster. [more]